ANIMAL CURIOSITIES
Fatou , the world's oldest gorilla has just turned 66 years old
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Happy birthday Fatou!
Fatou, the world's oldest female gorilla has turned 66 years old: to celebrate her, the Berlin Zoo (Germany) offered her plenty of fruit as a gift.
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World's oldest living gorilla
Since the death of Trudy, previous seniority record holder (on July 24, 2019), Fatou has become the world's oldest living gorilla.
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The exact day she broke the record
On July 25, 2020, she passed Trudy's final age of 63 years and 204 days and became the oldest gorilla ever.
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Her story
Fatou was born in 1957 in the wild in West Africa. In 1959 it was brought to France by a sailor, after which it was purchased by the zoo.
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The arrival in Berlin
It is estimated that she was only two years old at the time of her arrival.
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Family
In 1974 she gave birth to the first gorilla bred in Berlin, Dufte. Through her only offspring, Dufte, Fatou is grandmother of two, great-grandmother of 13 (six living) and great-great-grandmother of 16 (ten living).
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The last surviving gorilla
After the death of Helen, on October 14, 2022, Fatou became the last surviving gorilla born in the 1950s.
